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urmountable obstable in the mud of Virginia.
The Confederate cavalry, scattered among the counties that are watered by the Rapidan, and as far as the foot of the Alleghanies, for the purpose of gathering the forage of which they stood in need and to enforce the application of the conscription laws before the Federals should come th of March.
They finally returned to the charge at the end of April, while one detachment tried in vain, on the 28th, to force the defile of Greenland Gap in the Alleghanies.
Jones, passing through Beverly and Philippi at the head of a large brigade of cavalry, levied contributions upon the whole flat country and forced his way a on the Virginia side of the Ohio, the whole valley of Monongahela, where McClellan made his debut, and the sources of the upper tributaries of the Potomac in the Alleghanies; General Kelley occupies this last region between Romney and Moorefield.
The Confederate forces, very much scattered, are, for the most part, commanded by Ge

aks, had been placed by President Davis at the head of all the Southern forces stationed between the Mississippi and the Alleghanies; but at the same time, whether through excessive solicitude for his health, or out of regard for his favorite generapositions taken by Bragg are very strong.
The great plateau of the Cumberland, forming the échelon farthest west of the Alleghanies, extends southward as far as the thirty-fourth degree of latitude; the Tennessee, after traversing from east to westm, very rough, affording him everywhere the means for delaying Forrest's march.
South of Chattanooga the chain of the Alleghanies soon loses itself in a range of hills which appear to have been thrown into the centre of the large and fertile plai Smith, who is exercising supreme command in this immense district, similar to that which Johnston exercised between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi, has organized two expeditions, to which the sudden attack on Milliken's Bend on the 7th of June

masking the movements of the infantry was sufficient occupation for him, preventing a thought of undertaking a raid on his own account.
Longstreet remained at Culpeper with his corps, to form the centre of the long column which was to extend from Fredericksburg to within sight of the Maryland mountains; and on the morning of the 10th, Ewell resumed his line of march.
Two brigades of cavalry were ordered to clear his way. Imboden's brigade, which was already among the upper valleys of the Alleghanies above Romney, was instructed to cover his left and destroy the track of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in order to prevent Milroy from receiving reinforcements from the West.
Jenkins' brigade preceded the infantry into the valley of the Shenandoah, which it had left only a few days before.
These two brigades, which had but recently been really attached to the Army of Northern Virginia,
Jones' brigade is reported as attached in the returns of this army for the month of May.
Imbod

des continue the war between the Ohio and the Alleghanies without any such great battles as are bein of Western Virginia.
The main chain of the Alleghanies between the two gaps opened.
by the watey.
To go through the wild region between the Alleghanies and the Blue Ridge the Federals are compeh concentrate at Lewisburg on the west of the Alleghanies near New River, and which cross the chainebouches at length on the western side of the Alleghanies, but the country is so poor that the Unio, will break through the western hills of the Alleghanies at the Traveller's Repose and descend to , who is concealed from Moor, has crossed the Alleghanies, and, going through Jackson's River, has unately, a mountain-pathway which crosses the Alleghanies and runs in the small valley of Anthony'save Huntersville and the western sides of the Alleghanies, so that Averell can reach, without any ia of the manner in which war was made in the Alleghanies.
He will admit that the Federals, taught[8 more...]

tive, and the retrograde movement undertaken by the former was no encouragement to the latter to attempt a direct attack with his reduced forces.
This attack had not been contemplated in the instructions of the general-in-chief.
Porter was entirely ignorant of what was taking place on his right.
Finally, his scouts having taken some prisoners, he learned from them that he had before him a portion of Longstreet's corps, which the general staff still believed to be among the defiles of the Alleghanies.
Consequently, Porter, while McDowell was pursuing his way with King through a long and sinuous road, confined himself to watching the enemy in front of him. Longstreet, on his part, as soon as he was informed by Robertson of the appearance of a large Federal column on his right wing, hastened to reinforce it, and at half-past 4 o'clock withdrew Wilcox's division from the place it occupied on his left, to send it to take a position between Kemper and Jones.
Porter, therefore, by his m